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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1895
Page
7
A distressed woman seeks aid from a benevolent gentleman as she reveals her husband, once blind, has just gained his sight and they face new trouble. The exchange reflects a period drama tone with moral concerns and social tension.
In Texas Siftings a remark attributed to Sixtus V contrasts a crow with flatterers. He claimed he prefers a crow to a flatterer because a crow thrives on the dead while flatterers live on the living.
A conversation shows a young couple joking about who will act as speaker in the house. They admit they usually share the role and have not yet decided who will lead.
A terse exchange hints at feelings between Clare and Lee. Morey pushes back as Clare asserts strong opinions, implying tension and unresolved affections.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers pell excursion tickets to western and southwestern points on February 12 March 5 and April 2 1895 at one regular first class fare plus 2.00 for the round trip. Tickets are valid returning twenty days from date of sale. Inquiries to any ticket agent or F H LORD G P T A Chicago.
A fragment shows a dialogue where a young woman asks a young man if he has his Harry and instructs him to put 25 in his pocket to pay for a hat as they prepare to attend a theater event.
A brief exchange shows two girls debating status and happiness. One asks whether a poor young swan who smiles or a rich old man who cannot find joy is better, revealing social ideals and personal aspirations.
Fragmentary local notice mentions Mrs Winston’s Soothing Syrup for teething and a camphor and glycerine preparation used historically in Egypt. It also references G. Clark Co. of New Haven and glimpses of Florida strawberry themes, night routines, and evolving fashion trends amid unclear context.
An advertisement touts a laxative syrup claiming gentle cleansing of the liver and bowels. It emphasizes its pleasant taste and broad use for relief from colds headaches fevers and constipation. The note warns buyers to purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co and to beware substitutes.
A compilation notes descriptions of Rhoda Broughton as a tea loving snippy novelist and David Belasco’s earnings, while Samuel Minturn Peck preserves Alabama gardens. It recalls Hugo’s scattered verses, Hall’s “Father of Chicago” claim, and James G. Fair’s Virginia City stake tale. It also lists LL D honors for women and Dumas Holmes gag in contrast to Conan Doyle. Edison’s cigar habit and Marguerite of Italy’s multilingualism are highlighted.
Newark post office clerk wins a $5,000 lottery prize but is dismissed after the postmaster learns of it. A Brooklyn man, driven to desperation by his child’s surgery, leapt to his death from a fourth story window. A high priced Chaucer vellum edition draws $600. Robert E. Lee, grandson of General Lee, lives on his Virginia estate and practices law in Washington.
A Philadelphia shop named Human Wolf headlines men’s furnishings. The piece notes Paul Wilson of Concord Kentucky hangs himself after tooth pain. A Superior Wisconsin man seeks divorce on atheist grounds. Maria Lawrence of Palmer Massachusetts serves in her town fire department. Charles Bramel of Robertson Kentucky, ill, plans a stone coffin filled with alcohol for his death. Isaac Vickery’s son, once from Norridgewock, now a 15 year old giant at six feet four and 290 pounds, shows remarkable growth.
A Lecompte Louisiana man W E Simpson recounts quitting cigarettes with No-To-Bac after years of tobacco use. He credits the remedy with erasing nerve cravings, restoring vigor, and enabling happiness as he and his wife welcome a baby boy. He urges others to try the product and praises local druggists for selling it.
Brigands over 100 strong descended from the mountains on Tortoli Sardinia attacking at dawn. The town garrison of two gendarmes and a brigadier were joined by citizens in a several hour battle. They looted shops and homes, taking 27 000 lire in gold 20 000 lire in paper currency and 5 000 lire in jewelry before retreating to the hills.
Deschapelles, famed as the greatest whist player, had one hand yet mastered cards, sorting and playing with dexterity. In later life he became ardent republican, suspected in revolutionary plots under Louis Philippe, with papers showing a list of persons to be disposed of including Vatry alias Alphie to be guillotined.
The oldest secret trade craft may be Damascus inlaying the hardest steel with gold and silver or the Chinese vermilion pigment making, both kept by specialist smiths through the ages.
A reflective note suggests that the less we fix on our intentions the more likely we are to realize them. The idea emphasizes flexible focus over rigid planning, inviting inward consideration of goals and chances for spontaneous achievement.
In Harper’s Weekly a private letter traces Pitcairn Islander religious change from Anglican roots to Seventh-day Adventism. Since 1866 they began observing the Sabbath and, by 1890, formed the Seventh-day Adventist church on Pitcairn with about 140 residents and a tradition of broad sectarian reading.
Vienna building inspectors tested brick casing for iron fire protection using a twelve foot wrought iron column inside a brick chamber loaded by levers. A four and a half inch brick wall quarantined the column with fireclay mortar while fusible metal samples gauged temperature. The iron pillar remained uninjured at 149 degrees Fahrenheit despite surrounding material damage.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch report notes that a subtreasury official describes 15010 mutilated silver dollars in the vault and over 500000 worn half dollars quarters and dimes. He cites target practice in Texas as the cause and says value depends on mutilation extent with discretionary judgment.
The financier Hetty Green declares support for workers and promises aid from her vast fortune. She states that $10,000,000 is sufficient to begin helping the laboring class, with $60,000,000 available overall.
Historian Theodore Mommsen is appointed vice chancellor of the German order Pour le Merite founded by Frederick the Great. The award honors military valor and, from 1842, includes a second class for science and civil achievement.
An old advertisement argues deafness is incurable except by constitutional treatment. It claims deafness arises from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, offering one hundred dollars for a case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also notes a cashier Miss Mabel Dodge misappropriates two thousand dollars, and mentions a new woman learning.
Salzer's Yellow Dent corn yielded over sixty eight bushels per acre on large acreage despite 10 days without rain. The U S Department of Agriculture reports a national average just over twenty bushels per acre. Readers are invited to mail 14e to John A Salter Seed Co LaCrosse Wis to receive a free sample and catalog. A San Francisco man fined forty dollars and costs for refusing to leave a theater after being warned.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad offers, on March 5, April 2 and 30, 1895, the lowest rates to southern points. Round trip tickets to Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and West Florida, and one way tickets to Florida at about half the regular rates. Inquire with agents or write to C. P. Atmore or George L. Cross for excursion tickets. If a woman marries her ideal he may outgrow it. Discount expectations by 80 percent.
The horse refuses water hemlock that the goat eats avidly while the goat avoids plants eaten by the sheep. All animals avoid the tobacco plant except the goat man and the tobacco worm.
Describes wide regional differences in African eating, noting unusual dishes such as roasted spiders caterpillars ants stewed in butter ostrich eggs baked elephant trunk and feet puma fat sheep tails stewed puppies and other foods not commonly considered edible.
In a church scene a pastor rebukes a deacon who defends placing a poker chip in the offering. The deacon insists he had none when he quit last night. The exchange portrays tension over donation ethics in a parish context.
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